In a fiery victory speech, New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani said his election symbolises "hope" over tyranny and "big money" as he cited former Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru to assert that the city has stepped out from the "old into the new".

Mamdani registered a decisive and historic win at the polls as he defeated Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa and political heavyweight former New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo, who ran as an independent candidate and received Trump's endorsement only on the eve of the election.

With 91% of votes in, Mamdani garnered 1,036,051 votes (50.4%), a clear lead over Cuomo's 854,995 votes (41.6%) and Sliwa's 146,137 votes. With this win, Mamdani becomes the first South Asian and Muslim to be elected to sit at the helm of the political seat

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